Films : Spirit of Place : all
animate! synopsis
Well met by moonlight – room service for the spirit. A one-take dream in Cocteauesque monochrome.
long synopsis
Every room has a spirit which sleeps beneath the layers of peeling paint and wallpaper. Spirit of Place observes the awakening of such a spirit, coerced into life by moonlight to reveal sumptuous velvets, decaying gilt, and an assemblage of neo-Gothic objets d‘art – a ghostly reflection of its past.
In one long, carefully choreographed sequence, pictures animate and a message is disclosed as the motion control camera passes on its programmed course.
key credits
- director
- Oliver Harrison
- lighting camera
- Doug Foster
- music
- Oliver Harrison
- Roger Bolton
Oliver Harrison
company name
O. H. Films
animate! films by this artist
a film by Oliver Harrison
direction
- director
- Oliver Harrison
live-action personnel
- lighting camera
- Doug Foster
sound personnel
- music
- Oliver Harrison
- Roger Bolton
© Oliver Harrison 1992
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master copy format
- format
- 35mm
- colour or black & white
- black & white
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
